Note 234 — A true and agreeable description of some principal Indian lands and islands, which have not been recorded in former chronicles, but have now been first explored amid great danger during the voyage of Ulrich Schmidt of Straubing, and most carefully described by him. (continued 2)
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The author uses the word Wurzel here and in other places for plant. Perhaps the Traveller’s tree (Urania speciosa), with its graceful crown of plantain-like leaves, is here referred to.